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Posted on: Thu July 22, 2010

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly s Standing Committee on Housing and Works has taken a serious notice of the absence of the minister and secretary of housing and works from the committee meeting held on Wednesday.

The committee protested to the ministry for sending lower ranking officers to the meeting, defying the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the National Assembly, 2007. Pervaiz Khan, the chairman of the standing committee, chaired the meeting.

The committee also a took strong exception to the ministry for not sending a brief over the purchase of Bhara Kahu Land by the Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF).

The committee was of the view that the ministry was using delaying tactics for not attending the committee meetings as this was the third time that the housing ministry did not respond in a positive way.

The committee members have gone to the extent of tendering their en bloc resignations from the membership of the Standing Committee on Housing and Works if their genuine reservations with regard to the Ministry of Housing were not addressed.

The committee also noted that the procedure of allotment of all plots in hardship cases in the Housing Foundation was not being observed in its true sense and the major share of it was allotted to senior bureaucrats instead of genuine deserving cases.

It directed the ministry to streamline the process of allotment of plots in hardship cases to make it more transparent. Mahmood Hayat Khan Tochi Khan, Tariq Shabbir, Nazir Ahmed Bughio, Syed Allauddin, Tariq Mahmood Bajwa, Lt Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch, Khalida Mansoor Mian Marghoob Ahmad, Nosheen Saeed, Dr Ghulam Haider Samejo, Saima Akhtar Bharwana, MNAs, officers of the ministry and Housing Foundation attended the meeting.

Courtesy : The News